Turbellarian taxonomic database

Kirgisellinae Coronopharynx Diagnosis


Pharynx margin bears numerous tufts of sensory hairs, through which a weak enlargement gives the impression of a form of tentacles;
testes in hind body third, not joined to one another;
copulatory organ with proximal seminal vesicle and granular vesicle attached caudally to it;
cuticular apparatus a short tube;
Germovitellaria with anterior long vitellaria and caudal and medial germaria, whose germinal layer lies at front end;
gonopore in last body third;

Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

Diagnosis for Neokirgellinae Baicalellia

with paired testes joined together at front end with a bridge;
copulatory organ with cuticular tube;
paired germaria in hind part of body in contact wtih elongated, notched or lobed vitellaria;
germinal layer of germaria ventrocaudal;
gonopore in last body third;

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